Necktie-clasp



0. A. KREPLIN. NECKTIE QLASP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 191v.

Patented Aug- 24, 1920.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. KREPLIN, OF ENID, OKLAHOMA.

NECKTIE-CLASP.

Application filed November 7, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLns A. KREPLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Enid, in the county of Garfield and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to neck tie clasps and has as its object to provide a clasp especially adapted for use in holding in place relatively wide neck ties. The ordinary neck tie clasp embodying pivoted coacting jaws or gripping members cannot well be' employed in securing a neck tie of this type as theclasp must be engaged with one edge of the tie and one edge of the open front of the shirt and under such circumstances the tie will be caused to assume a position at one side of the middle front of the shirt instead of hanging perpendicularly as'it should to present a neat appearance. The present invention, therefore, aims to provide a neck tie clasp which may be employed in connection with a relatively wide neck tie in such a manner as to secure the tie to the shirt front and yet permit the tie to assume a natural or perpendicular position at the middle of the shirt front.

The invention also aims to so construct the clasp that the same will present a neater appearance than do clasps of the ordinary type and will be less liable to be lost.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the clasp embodying the present invention, showing the curved end of the pin slightly spaced from the gripping spurs;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the clasp;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4: is a similar view looking at the other end of the clasp.

The clasp embodying the present invention includes the usual face plate 1 which may be ornamented in any desired manner or left plain, as desired. Secured in any suitable manner to the rear face of this plate 1 is a plate 2 which adjacent one end is provided with a pair of spaced perforated pivot ears 3 projecting at right angles from the plane of the said plate 2, as clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings The said end of the plate 2 and the ears 3 carried thereby are located relatively close to one end of the face plate 1 and the late 2 is preferably of considerably less width than the plate 1 so that the ears 3 will be prac- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24., 1920. Serial No. 336,354. I

tically concealed from view and will not detract from the neat and artistic appearance of the clasp when applied to the tie and shirt front in the manner to be presently explained. The other end of the plate 2 is located relatively close to the other end of the face plate 1 and is bent to project substantially at right angles from the plane of the plate 2 and notched so as to form a pair ofspurs indicated by the numeral 4:. It is preferable that the spurs 4 be sharply point ed so as to bite into the material of the tie when the clasp is applied thereto, although the spurs are not so wide as to noticeably injure the tie' At this point it will be understood that the plate 2 and its spurs 4 constitute one of the gripping aws or members of the clasp.

The other gripping members or jaw in cludes a finger-piece 5 which is provided with a pair of spaced perforated ears 6 through which and the ears 3 is passed a pivot pin 7, this pin serving to pivotally connect the two gripping members, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 andet of the drawings. Secured at one end to the forward or rear face of the finger-piece 5, as may be found expedient, is a pin 8 which is slender and preferably cylindrical in cross section throughout its length and the piercing end of this pin is sharply pointed, as indicated at 9, and is turned to extend at a slight angle toward the plate 2, the said end being de signed to engage or seat between the spurs 4 in the manner shown in Fig.3 of the drawings, when the clasp is closed. A spring 10 is coiled about the pivot pin 7 and bears at one end against the finger-piece 5 and at its other end against the rear face of the plate 2 and this spring serves to normally hold the last described gripping member so rocked upon its pivot pin 7 that the bent end of the pin 8 will cooperate with the spurs 1 in the'manner above explained. By reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings it will be observed that the finger-piece 5 pro jects bodily at one side of the pivot pin 7 and that the pin 8 extends at the other side of the said pivot pin. IVhen it is desired to apply the clasp to a tie the finger-piece 5 is pressed toward the plate 2, thereby swinging the pin 8 in a direction away from the plate 2 and the said pin is then inserted through the tie at a point between the lateral edges thereof and through the shirt front and then back through the shirt front and tie so that when the finger-piece 5 is relieved of pressure the piercing end of the pin 8 will cooperate with the spurs 4c in the manner stated. It will be understood that the clasp may be applied to a tie and shirt 4 front in various manners and positions and' that the same may be equally as well employed in holding a relatively narrow tie by applying the clasp to the tie and shirt front in the same manner as in the use of the ordinary neck tie clasp.

.I-Iaving thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: I 1. ,A tie clasp comprising a plate having one end thereof bent at substantially right angles thereto and providedwith a V-shaped notch forming spaced gripping spurs, a finger-piece pivotally connected with sa d 1 plate, a spring coacting with the plate and tially-right angles to the plate and provided with a V-shaped notch forming spaced gripping spurs, the opposite end of the plate being provided with spaced ears, a finger-piece having spaced ears coacting with the firstmentioned cars, a pivot pin extending through said cars, a coil-spring surrounding the pivot pin and bearing against the fingerpiece and plate, respectively, and a pin secured to the finger-piece and having its piercing end curved laterally in the direction'of the plate and adapted to normally seat between the gripping spurs.

3. A tie clasp comprising a body portion,

a plate secured to the rear sideof the bodyportion and having one extreme end thereof bent at substantially right angles to its plane and provided with a V-shaped notch forming spaced gripping spurs, a finger piece pivotally mounted upon the plate near the other extreme endthereof and provided with a relatively long and slender pin extending from the finger piece rearwardly of the said plate and from a point substantially at the pivot for the finger. piece to a point beyond the spaced gripping spurs, the terminal portion of the pin beingturned laterally forwardly, and a spring normally holding the finger piece swung upon its pivot with the free end portion of the pin seating between the spaced gripping-spurs and with its terminal located relatively close to the rear side of the body portion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES A. KREPLIN. its 

